{"id":1184,"date":"2013-11-09T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2013-11-09T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:55:21","slug":"brigads106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/brigads106\/","title":{"rendered":"BrigaDS106"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So at the start of this week I though I&#8217;d get back into the headless course and do some video assignments. I spent a while looking through them but this one looked like it would be fun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Download different scene clips from one movie to create a short commercial for DS106. Clip, trim and remix them to let people know what DS106 is all about and how they can find us at <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\">ds106.us<\/a>. Challenge yourself to overdub the audio to have the characters saying DS106 where it would be appropriate. &nbsp;Also try and add the DS106 logo onto an object in a scene. You can find an example at <a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/11\/01\/the-ds106-matrix\/\">The DS106 Matrix<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from: <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/mash-a-movie-for-ds106\/\">ds106 Assignments: Mash A Movie For DS106<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at the description I see I&#8217;d completely forgot about the logo bit, I also didn&#8217;t dub the characters. <a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/11\/01\/the-ds106-matrix\/\">Rochelle&#8217;s example is great<\/a> and I started looking for some sort of SF connection, but somehow ended up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brigadoon_(film)\" title=\"Brigadoon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">Brigadoon<\/a>. Perhaps because cogdog visited Scotland last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Also because I only read the assignment once I got it into my head to make a trailer. I found the Brigadoon trailer on youtube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61MEKyAQSpg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mt first idea was to find the clips used in the trailer without the text and recreate it shot by shot with new text and voice over, of course I could not find the same scenes on youtube. I did find a few clips and decided to go with the timing and titles from the trailer with different scenes behind.<\/p>\n<p>I expected to do the editing in iMovie but quickly realised that its titling was not up to the zooms and swings on the original. I switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telestream.net\/screenflow\/\" title=\"Screen Recording and Screencasting Software - ScreenFlow Overview - Telestream\">Screenflow<\/a> as I knew it could do nice transitions of text. There I found that the text could be animated nicely but not curved. So I opened up Fireworks to make transparent titles which I could animate in Screenflow.<\/p>\n<p>By now I&#8217;d spent a fair bit of time on this with nothing to show so I only spent a few minutes realising that recreating the text accurately would take more time than I had. I just found a vaguely similar font and used that. I also used a brighter yellow that the original.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/brig-title-04.png\" alt=\"brig-title-04\" width=\"480\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/brig-title-04.png 480w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/brig-title-04-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The workflow was, copy a frame from QuickTime of the original trailer, paste into Fireworks. Add text, messing a little with the spacing. Then aligned the text to a path if I needed a curve, dropped a shadow, grouped and gave a quick blur. Hid the scheenshot layer and exported as a transparent png. I hide all the layers, added the next screenshot a did the next bit of text. All the graphics from one document for laziness.<\/p>\n<p>Back in screenflow I edited the clips, animated the overlay and added a voice over. Screenflow is a pretty nice tool for this sort of thing and would be good and doing the animated typography sort of movie too.<\/p>\n<p>This took a fair amount of time, if I had ben willing to spend more time it would have been less rough, the text could have been better, the voice over I just used the first take with my macs inbuilt mic as I did that bit at lunchtime in work. I had to extract audio from different bits of video and move it around, again I did a fairly quick and dirty job of this, trying to balance time and fun. THis is the final effort:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAsnXJ2-YfM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might notice that some of the characters are aligned weirdly or rotated a bit, this was first due to accident, I could have cleaned up the path they were aligned to in Fireworks but left them in and made some more for extra klunky charm;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at the start of this week I though I&#8217;d get back into the headless course and do some video assignments. I spent a while looking through them but this one looked like it would be fun: Download different scene clips from one movie to create a short commercial for DS106. Clip, trim and remix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/brigads106\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BrigaDS106&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,73],"tags":[139,140],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment","category-remix","tag-videoassignments","tag-videoassignments1232"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-j6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}